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The school board ruling mandating that physically handicapped students be placed in regular classroom settings whenever possible also assured all children who have a reading problem of special aid.

1) stays the same
2) should be placed in regular classroom settings whenever possible also assures all children that have a reading problem.
3) are placed in regular classroom settings whenever posssible also assures those children who are having reading problems
4) be placed in regular classroom settings whenever possible also assured children with reading problems

5) should be placed in regular classroom settings whenver possible also has assured all those children with a reading problem.
" whenver possible
" also assured " with reading problems of special aid" sounds like a run-on.

No, I think the error is with "also assured with reading problems" does not make sense.

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The school board ruling mandated that physically handicapped students ( be placed in regular classroom settings whenever possible also assured all children who have a reading problem) of special aid.

1) stays the same 2) should be placed in regular classroom settings whenever possible also assures all children that have a reading problem. 3) are placed in regular classroom settings whenever posssible also assures those children who are having reading problems 4) be placed in regular classroom settings whenever possible also assured children with reading problems

5) should be placed in regular classroom settings whenver possible also has assured all those children with a reading problem. " whenver possible " also assured " with reading problems of special aid" sounds like a run-on.

Are you SURE you got copied this sentence correctly. None of the choices make sense unless the beginning of the sentence reads:

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Can someone explain why option 4 is correct. should not there be 'and' between "whenever possible" and "also".

Thanks,K

I thought "mandated" was a typo because, as you pointed out, the school board would have done two things: "mandated" AND "also assured". Since none of the sentence had a connnecting word between the two, the sentence was awkward. The sentence now as written reads "The school board (mandating some stuff) also assured...." Where everything after "mandating" is now a modifier of "school board". (You could also use "mandated" if the word "which" preceeded it: "The school board which mandated (stuff) also assured...")

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The school board ruling mandating that physically handicapped students be placed in regular classroom settings whenever possible also assured all children who have a reading problem of special aid.

1) stays the same 2) should be placed in regular classroom settings whenever possible also assures all children that have a reading problem. 3) are placed in regular classroom settings whenever possible also assures those children who are having reading problems 4) be placed in regular classroom settings whenever possible also assured children with reading problems 5) should be placed in regular classroom settings whenever possible also has assured all those children with a reading problem.

The ruling that did X also does Y. A, D and E out.
Among B and C, B seems more appropriate.

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If you say, mandating, then -also assured- is no problem. That becomes a simple sentence with one subject and one verb

If you say mandated, then there is a problem. A simple sentence can have only one verb; the second verb assured (in all the choices) becomes additional and the sentences are run-ons.

This is a fit case for the use of command subjunctive and the base form verb be; Between 1, 2 and 4, 2 is wordier, when it uses children who/that/ have a reading problem, in comparison to 4’s , also assured children with reading problems; 1 and 2 also call their reading problems as a single problem, which does not go well with the plural structure of children
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